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I was always surprised this Article wasn't in Wiki. I assumed there was some usage reason it was not added -- mainly that perhaps it was too parochial - certainly it would make any list of the top 5 crimes in the D.C. area in the past 40 years ... but again maybe too inside baseball.

However when I stumbled upon the kidnapped children page and saw all the other articles I had no doubt that this was entirely appropriate. Maybe not Nationally significant - but significant to everyone older than ~36 (in 2007) who lived in the D.C. area at the time. I modeled it on the Disappearance of the Beaumont Children article.

Anyway I didn’t add or upload the pictures and age progressions that are all over the Internet because I couldn’t be sure of Fair Use -- but if you can make sure it is OK that would make it better article. Ditto on the sketch of the Tape Recorder Man.

I know John Lyon left broadcasting and became a Victims Assistance Counselor -- wasn’t sure how that fit -- but may be relevant so if you think you can reasonably fit it in go for it. Same with the Lyons Brother who became a Cop.

Lets watch for folks trying to stick the "bound girls in the car" story in as fact Khan Noonian Singh 02:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"witness"[edit]

And so it is written. St. John adds, "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works."

Yes, I commend you, Oh, Great and Wonderful Wizard of OZ, all-knowing one, all-seeing one! "Lets watch out for those folks trying to stick the bound girls in the car story in as fact."

A 37-year old passes judgment on what the Two saw that day. You pass judgment on the Two? Only the Two know the Truth!

The One, the Hero of grace, suffers public repudiation and humiliation for departing from the precept and convention of the stabuli by speaking the Truth.

Of the other, One gazes into the eyes of the innocent one, her stare reaches to his soul, her image burns onto his conscience and then in a moment she is gone! And the One is forgotten.

Gone in a moment and then 31 years of NOTHING - who takes them, how, for what purpose, to where, what was to become of them? Two beautiful lives raptured? Seized by Aliens perhaps? What? NO ANSWER – NO EVIDENCE! Surely, you know something? You know NOTHING and so of course neither can the Two who saw.

Bless you, you're gonna need it. I forgive you but how am I to forgive myself for letting her go???

A sworn statement of fact on the events that occuring on or about 8:30am, April 7, 1975 at the intersection of Church St. and Grant Ave, Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia by the "witness"Mdietz47 05:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I cannot figure out what you're trying to say here, but I'm pretty sure you are not maintaining civility or assuming good faith. Can you please try to coherently explain the point you're trying to make? Or are you attempting to quote another party (aside from St. John)? It's a rather mysterious post.71.63.119.49 03:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Similarity to other child abductions at the time.[edit]

It is depressing to note, that such abductions in public places of little girls by deviants was also occurring in other countries, and under almost identicle circumstances. Robert Black in England abducted children by driving alongside them, often in public streets, then snatching them into the side door of his van. In practically all incidents, Black was never seen abducting the girls. In the Lyon case, two girls would have been impossible to abduct by snatching, so it seems likely they were tricked into entering a vehicle, if such was used. Detectives were hamstrung by Black often having no connection at all with the location the girls vanished from. It seems likely, with most other lines of inquiry proving unhelpful that the Lyon sisters encountered a similar misfortune. A later computer assisted comparison of vehicles reported in the areas of the crimes highlighted Blacks van. So it is still possible the identity of the culprit may be drawn out for Police consideration, if not prosecution. This would at least give the girls family some closure.Johnwrd (talk) 19:39, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]